Example Sentences

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President Trump’s State of the Union address was full of patriotic spectacle, and it was moving in its encomiums to the country’s military heroes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

A mind-numbing number of times, flowery versions of these encomiums were bestowed on two principal contenders, California Republican Kevin McCarthy and New York Democrat Hakeem Jeffries.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023

Some that had lionized Bankman-Fried have scrubbed their encomiums from their websites; Sequoia similarly removed Fisher’s lengthy piece from its website.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Alabama had 32 chart-topping country singles between 1980 and 1993, including encomiums to rural pride like “Tennessee River” and “Mountain Music.”

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2022

I was expecting a stodgy, older gentleman who’d offer me canned encomiums about Hopkins and then stiffen and ask for the check when he found out the details of my standardized test scores.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore